As I noted in a previous post, Haley and DeSantis like to argue about their respective records, but they really don’t disagree on many points of policy other than Ukraine and Social Security. Does that mean Haley will inherit the DeSantis voters after he drops out, as he must fairly soon?
No, because supporters of the two are very different demographically even if they are fundamentally similar in many respects. Haley has the more highly educated Never Trumpers; DeSantis is the spokesman for anti-anti-Trumpers and for devout evangelicals. My guess is that a large percentage of the DeSantis voters will migrate to Trump in spite of their obvious qualms about the man.
Haley will have to find a way to patch that up if she is to have any chance at winning, even if Trump is convicted in the federal elections case.